GB2379090A - Modular base unit for car appliances - Google Patents

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GB2379090A
GB2379090A GB0120517A GB0120517A GB2379090A GB 2379090 A GB2379090 A GB 2379090A GB 0120517 A GB0120517 A GB 0120517A GB 0120517 A GB0120517 A GB 0120517A GB 2379090 A GB2379090 A GB 2379090A
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01M—PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
    • H01M10/00—Secondary cells; Manufacture thereof
    • H01M10/42—Methods or arrangements for servicing or maintenance of secondary cells or secondary half-cells
    • H01M10/46—Accumulators structurally combined with charging apparatus
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01M—PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
    • H01M50/00—Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the non-active parts of electrochemical cells other than fuel cells, e.g. hybrid cells
    • H01M50/20—Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders
    • H01M50/262—Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders with fastening means, e.g. locks
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01M—PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
    • H01M50/00—Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the non-active parts of electrochemical cells other than fuel cells, e.g. hybrid cells
    • H01M50/20—Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders
    • H01M50/271—Lids or covers for the racks or secondary casings
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01M—PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
    • H01M50/00—Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the non-active parts of electrochemical cells other than fuel cells, e.g. hybrid cells
    • H01M50/20—Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders
    • H01M50/296—Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders characterised by terminals of battery packs
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05K—PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
    • H05K5/00—Casings, cabinets or drawers for electric apparatus
    • H05K5/0086—Casings, cabinets or drawers for electric apparatus portable, e.g. battery operated apparatus
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E60/00—Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
    • Y02E60/10—Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A modular base unit (1) cooperates with various modular car appliances such as air pumps or portable lamps. The base unit comprises a case (10) with a receiving space and a cover plate (21) with a connector (22) thereon. A power supply such as a battery is housed in the receiving space and connected to the metal contact portions (23) of the connector, or a car plug is connected to the portions (23). When the base unit is detachably connected with the car appliance by insertion of the connector into a receiving portion of the appliance, the appliance is electrically connected with the power supply via the base unit and connector contact portions. The use of a single base unit to power various different appliances saves user expenditure and storage space, and production costs.

Description

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MODULAR BASE UNIT FOR CAR APPLIANCES 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a modular base unit optionally cooperated with various modular car appliances for miniaturization to reduce sizes of the car appliances for occupying a small and saving storage space within a car.
2. Description of Related Art Conventional car appliances, such as various air pumps and portable lamps, are normally integrated. Each one of the car appliances has a base unit integrally connected with a main body thereof, therefore when more than one of the car appliances are collected together in a storage space ofwithin a car, the duplicated base units of the car appliances must occupy more storage space than only one base unit does.
If a user has to collect more than one conventional car appliance, each of which has an integrated base unit, the total expenditure of buying these different car appliances must be excessive.
Furthermore, the production cost of the conventional integrated car appliances is uneconomic.
Therefore, it is an objective of the invention to provide a modular base unit for optionally cooperating with modular car appliances to mitigate and/or obviate the aforementioned problems.
The main object of the present invention is to provide a modular base unit to optionally cooperate with various modular car appliances so as to
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miniaturizereduce sizes of the car appliances. Therefore the storage space for more than one of the car appliances is savedefficiently occupy a small volume so as to save the storage space within the car, the expenditure of buying various modular car appliances and a modular base is economic for a user, and the production cost of the modular car appliances and the modular base is also accordingly low.
Other objects, advantages and novel features of the invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
In the drawings: Fig. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a first embodiment of a modular base unit in accordance with the invention; Fig. 2 is an exploded perspective view of a second embodiment of the modular base unit in accordance with the invention; Figs. 3 is a perspective view of a first application embodiment of the modular base unit in accordance with the invention; Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a second application embodiment of the modular base unit in accordance with the invention; Fig. 5 is a plan view of a third application embodiment of the modular base unit in accordance with the invention; Fig. 6 is a plan view of a fourth application embodiment of the modular base unit in accordance with the invention; and
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Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the modular base unit of the invention in cooperation with a charger.
As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the present invention relates to a modular base unit (1) for optionally cooperating with various modular car appliances, which are designed to respectively correspond to the base unit (1). The modular base unit (1) particularly comprises a case (10) and a connecting seat (20).
The case (10) is defined with a receiving space, which is intended to receive a battery (30) fitted therein as shown in Fig. 1, or to receive a car plug (40) collected therein as shown in Fig. 2. The battery (30) is optionally a rechargeable or non-chargeable battery. The car plug (40) corresponds to a power supply car plug jack generally provided in a normal car. Two fasteners (l l) are respectively provided at two opposite inner sides of the case (10) and fixed in the case (10) by an elastic member (12).
The connecting portion (20) includes a cover plate (21) detachably fixed with the case (10) in an opening of the receiving space, and a connector (22) integrally formed on the cover plate (21).
The cover plate (21) is detachably fixed on the case (10) by means of lock joints or screws. The connector (22) has two conducting metal pieces (23) respectively abutted against outside surfaces at two opposite sides thereof. The conducting metal pieces (23) are respectively extended into an interior of the connector (22) and electrically connected with the battery (30) or the car plug (40) via a pair of electrical wires (24), which have first ends thereof extended
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into the interior of the connector (22) and electrically connected with the conducting metal pieces (23), and second ends thereof respectively and electrically connected with two electrical terminals of the battery (30) or the car plug (40).
In a first application embodiment of the invention as shown in Fig. 3, the base unit (1) is cooperated with a high-pressure low-volume mechanical air pump (50), which is modularized corresponding to the base unit (1). The connector (22) is inserted into a socket defined in a lower end of the highpressure low-volume mechanical air pump (50). The base unit (1) is detachably connected with the high-pressure low-volume mechanical air pump (50) by means of the two fasteners (11) respectively engaged into two fastening holes defined in the lower end of the high-pressure low-volume mechanical air pump (50).
For example, in the first application embodiment, the car plug (40) is provided in electrical connection with the conducting metal pieces (23) of the base unit (1). The case (10) is further defined with a cut (13) at an upper edge thereof to permit the electrical wires connected with the car plug (40) to extend therethrough. When the car plug (40) of the base unit (1) is inserted into a power supply car plug jack, the high-pressure low-volume mechanical air pump (50) is electrically connected with the power supply via the conducting metal pieces (23) and the car plug (40).
In a second application embodiment of the invention as shown in Fig. 4,
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the base unit (1) is cooperated with a modular air pump (51) having an LC display.
In a third application embodiment of the invention as shown in Fig. 5, the base unit (1) is cooperated with a modular low-pressure high-volume air pump (52).
In a fourth application embodiment of the invention as shown in Fig. 6, the base unit (1) is cooperated with a modular portable lamp (53).
With reference to Fig. 7, a charger (60) is provided to cooperate with the rechargeable battery (30). The charger (60) has a socket (61) defined therein corresponding to the connector (22), two fastening holes (62) defined therein to correspond to the two fasteners (11), and two metal contact pieces (not shown) provided therein to correspond to the two conducting metal pieces (23), whereby the charger (60) is detachably connected to the base unit (1) by means of the fasteners (11) respectively engaging into the fastening holes (62) of the charger (60), and electrically connected with the power supply of the base unit (1) by the contact pieces electrically connecting with the conducting metal pieces (23).
The modular base unit (1) of the invention has the following advantages: 1. Because the car appliances are designed with modular structures corresponding to the modular base unit (1), more than one modular car appliancesoccupy less volume than more than one conventional integrated car appliances do, therefore the storage spaces for the modular car appliances and
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the base unit (1) are small.
2. As the car appliances are modularized, the production cost of the car appliances and the base unit (1) are reduced.
3. The total expenditure of buying various modular car appliances and the modular base unit for a user is economic.
It is to be understood, however, that even though numerous characteristics and advantages of the present invention have been set forth in the foregoing description, together with details of the structure and function of the invention, the disclosure is illustrative only, and changes may be made in detail, especially in matters of shape, size, and arrangement of parts within the principles of the invention to the full extent indicated by the broad general meaning of the terms in which the appended claims are expressed.

Claims (7)

Claims:
1. A modular base unit (1) for a modular car appliance, the base unit (1) comprising : a case (10) having a receiving space defined therein; a connecting portion (20) having a cover plate (21) corresponding to an opening of the receiving space of the case (10), a connector (22) integrally
formed on the cover plate (21), and two conducting metal pieces (23) provided at the connector (22), wherein the cover plate (21) is detachably connected with a periphery defining the opening of the receiving space, the connector (22) is adapted to correspond to a socket defined in the car appliance, the two conducting metal pieces (23) are extended into an interior of the connector (22), a pair of electrical wires (24) has a pair of first ends extended into the interior the connector (22) and respectively and electrically connected with the conducting metal pieces (23) and a pair of second ends adapted to respectively and electrically connected with a power supply; whereby when the base unit (1) is detachably connected to the car appliance, the car appliance is electrically connected with the power supply via the conducting metal pieces (23) and the electrical wires (24).
2. The modular base unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the case (10) has a cut (13) defined at an upper edge thereof to permit the pair of electrical wires (24) to extend therethrough.
3. The modular base unit as claimed in claim I, wherein two fasteners (l l)
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are respectively provided at two opposite inner sides of the case (10) to respectively extend through the car appliance.
4. The modular base unit as claimed in claim 3, wherein the fasteners (11) are fixed in the case (10) by means of an elastic member (12).
5. The modular base unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the connecting portion (20) is detachably fixed with the case (10) by means of screws.
6. The modular base unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the connecting portion (20) is detachably fixed with the case (10) by means of lock joints.
7. The modular base unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the two metal conducting pieces (23) are respectively abutted against two opposed sides of the connector (22).
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